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>tech exemplifies "the hub exploiting the periphery". Two parties agreeing on a price for something is not exploitation. Both parties benefit from working toge
by charcircuit 1y ago
>tech exemplifies "the hub exploiting the periphery".
Two parties agreeing on a price for something is not exploitation. Both parties benefit from working together.
- Mikhail_Edoshin 1y agoMarx's use of the word "exploitation" is misunderstood. Exploitation is using another person as a thing. Exploit as one exploits natural resources.
- lotsofpulp 1y agoThat is a poor delineation of exploit. I use any number of professionals’ knowledge or skills or supplies just the same as I use natural gas to heat the home or water to hydrate myself or clean whatever. Maybe something about the seller (or buyer) being under duress would be a start to defining exploitation.
- kruffalon 1y agoThere is also the fact that an agreement under a power imbalance can be, and often is, exploitative.
- GolfPopper 1y agoAnd when one of the parties is a group of men with guns who abuse their neighbors in order to produce the something they're selling to the other party, it becomes exploitation in a quick hurry.